A middle-aged British
mother-of-two has joined Islamic State extremists after running away to wage
jihad with her toyboy husband.
Muslim convert Sally
Jones, 45 –who has spent a lifetime on state benefits – ranted online about how
she wants to behead Christians with a ‘blunt knife’.
The unemployed
mother, who was once an aspiring rock musician, claims to have joined
bloodthirsty jihadis roaming the lawless border between Syria and
Iraq.
Chaotic lifestyle: Mother-of-two Sally Jones - who has
spent a lifetime on state benefits - before she left Britain to marry a British
hacker turned jihadi who she met online
A video posted on YouTube, and then deleted, is believed
to show Sally Jones playing in a rock band in the early 1990s. It is thought
Jones may have converted to Islam and travelled to Syria
On an account attributed to Umm Hussain al-Britani, this
pictured was posted showing a female fighter holding an AK-47
She is believed to
have abandoned her two young sons to marry one of the British suspects in the
beheading of US journalist James Foley.
Jones, who now calls
herself Sakinah Hussain, wears traditional Islamic dress and has swapped her
home in Chatham, Kent, for Raqqa, the Syrian stronghold of terror group
IS.
Last night her
brother Patrick, 52, who runs his own paving company, said his family are deeply
shocked by her conversion to radical Islam.
Speaking at his
£500,000 home in Oxted, Surrey, he said: ‘This is a very upsetting and
distressing time for my family and I just don’t want them to be a part of it.
She fell in love and went away.’
Jones is thought to
have sneaked into Syria at the end of last year after an online romance with
Junaid Hussain, 20. She has posted a series of chilling threats on social
networking sites and posed for photos with an AK-47, while dressed in black with
her face veiled.
Using the pseudonym
Umm Hussain al-Britani, she has abused Jews and praised Osama bin Laden.
Married: According to her Twitter profile, Umm Hussain
al-Britani (left) married British computer hacker-turned jihadi Junaid
Hussain
British computer hacker-turned jihadi Junaid
Hussain pictured online posing with a scarf over his face and a rifle in his
hands
Just days ago, she
warned: ‘You Christians all need beheading with a nice blunt knife and stuck on
the railings at Raqqa... Come here I’ll do it for you!’
Her husband Hussain
is a computer hacker who fled Britain while on police bail suspected of violent
disorder in Birmingham. He was jailed for six months in 2012 for stealing
sensitive information from an aide of Tony Blair and blocking a government
anti-terrorist hotline with prank calls.
Hussain travelled to
the warzone with Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, a former rapper dubbed the ‘hip hop
jihadi’. Both men now fight for IS and are suspects in the killing of Mr
Foley.
Jones is an unlikely
Islamic convert and even more unlikely member of the terrorist militia. In the
early 1990s she was the lead guitarist in an all-girl rock band called Krunch
who played a series of gigs in the South East.
A clip of one of her
performances posted online shows her with a shock of blonde hair and wearing a
leather mini-skirt. In recent years she developed an interest in art, attempting
to sell fantasy pictures as well as T-shirts, mugs and key rings through a niche
website.
On August 10 Umm Hussain tweeted that her and her husband
had made it to the 'Caliphate'
She has also posted up a series of warning, the most
extreme of which have recently been removed
She adopted several online personas such as
Skya and Catgel, and contributed to forums on conspiracy theories, witchcraft
and black magic.
One bizarre picture showed her dressed as a
nun while pointing a large handgun.
She later forged an online romance with
Hussain, who was the leader of a computer hacking group known as Team Poison.
Using identities such as Pu55yTheGod and Pu55y Hussain, she posted dozens of
messages denouncing rivals.
Speaking near Jones’s former two-bedroom
council house in Chatham, neighbour Julie Horton, 58, said yesterday: ‘She was
very scatty, everything was always a drama. Her language wasn’t good, her
children were unruly and she was extremely loud. Men came and went but she lived
mainly as a single mum with her two boys.’
Another neighbour added: ‘She was a nightmare.
Always screaming and shouting and up all hours of the night. Everything about
her was extreme. She had problems with debts so one minute she was there, the
next she’d scarpered. She started to go through a phase of thinking she was a
witch.
‘She’d post pictures on Facebook of her
dressed in a cloak and said things about being able to talk to
spirits.’
It is not known what has happened to her sons,
aged around ten and 14, whom she described in photographs posted online in 2010
as the ‘loves of my life’. After being contacted by journalists, Jones deleted
messages, including the threat to behead Christians.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said
yesterday: ‘We appeal to the public to help identify for us aspiring
terrorists.’
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